Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-26
To the Alliance.

FORT WORTH, TEX, April "a, 1887.
To the Editor of the Gazette. zES
I notice in the editorial columns of TO-
DAYS GAZETTE an able and timely article,
commenting on the disposition of the
farmers of the late drouth section TO plant
cotton in place of the small grain crops,
and advocating that they plant cotton
more extensively. I notice in another.
column of the same issue of THE GAZETFE,
from the Burnett New Era, rec'ting what
the Alliance has done and is doing for the
farmers and the country, and declaring
that "dOubtless there is net nor
never was there an organization among
the farmers that has accomplished one
tenth the amount of good that has the
Farmers Alliance for that hard WOrking
class of citizens of the Lone Star state"
Now, there is no doubt that ia many
counties of the west the staafl grain crops
are almost totally ruined, and there is
no doubt that many needy farmers were
deprived of sowing anything like sui
ficient crop for lack of seed,
and since the late magnificent rains
all over that whole section, there are
thousands of rich acres of farms lying
idle awaiting the sowing of seed to grow
the rich harvest that always follows
favorable seasons in that section. That
cotton will grow in that section there
need be no controversy, as the hundreds
of farmers in Young and Jack. PalO Pinto
and Taylor and other counties readily
testify. Last year the cotton crop in
many parts of the cotton growing section
of the state was most magnificent, hun
dreds of acres yielding a bale per acre
without the aid of fertilizers. There are
doubtless thousands of bushels of cotton
seed in those sections rOtting ia pens for
fertilizers or thrown away and trsmpled
by STOCK that If the poor and needy far
mer of the west could get but hundredth
part of it would be GOd-send.
The people of the cities and towns Of
the state have given to the cause of the
drouth sufferers day in and day out, in
public and in private. The merchants
and business men have opened their
hearts to the sufferers from that sad Wis
itation, and have given and given until
charity seemed exhausted. The great
GAZETTE sounded the keynote, and the
great daily papers of the state took
up the cause of the stricken
and piled up the glorious
fund for humanity, while the railroads
generously passed the fruits of sus-
tenance into the lap of the hungry,
without money and without price.
Amid all this generous Outpouring to
humanity, have the farmers of the more
favored portion of the state, has the
Alliance, that is claimed to have accom-
plished -tenths more good to the
farmers than any other organization, has
the Alliance and it's members responded
as il should in aid of t e unfortunate til
lers of the soil in the stricken west? II,
as the secretary of the order informs the
public, their contribution consisted in
paying mileage and travelling expenses of
it, members attending the order from the
west, what business had these members
spending the funds junketing around
hunting conventions while their and their
neighbours children were crying for bread?
l doubt not many e noble tilier of the
soil, both in and out of the Alliance, has
given, and given generously, but they
should give once more, in the shape of
donating seed to those in the west who
will and wish to plant cotton. Let the
Alliance take the matter in hand pro npJly
and generously, and the yield next fail
will I'LL the west once more with plenty
aud prosperity. An OBSERVER.